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Costs

How much does it cost to run a pretrial program? What are the cost-savings of supervised release as compared with pretrial detention?

 

The Pretrial Justice Institute is the nation's only nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring informed pretrial decision-making for safe communities. When people are arrested, their release or detention pending trial should be based on a thoughtful, informed assessment of whether they will stay crime-free while on release and return to court for trial.

 


The following publications explore issues of cost effectiveness, cost/benefit analysis, and cost-avoidance of new jail construction. This section will also provide information on cost recovery done by programs who charge fees for certain supervision elements. 

More documents may be found in the Library.

 
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